Too Bad It's Not Bernanke: Boozy Chimp Sent To Rehab

Ai Ai, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, enjoys a cigarette after a meal in his glass enclosure at the zoo in Xian, in central China's Shaanxi province.  He has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer-drinking habits he has picked up, a popular daily reported on Friday.

Relax.  It's Friday.

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MOSCOW - A Russian chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer-drinking habits he has picked up, a popular daily reported on Friday.  An ex-performer, Zhora became aggressive at his circus and was transferred to a zoo in the southern Russian city of Rostov, where he fathered several baby chimps, learned to draw with markers and picked up his two vices.

"The beer and cigarettes were ruining him. He would pester passers-by for booze," the Komsomolskaya Pravda paper said.

It added he has now been transferred to the city of Kazan, about 800 km (500 miles) east of Moscow, for rehabilitation treatment.

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[DailyBail]

http://www.montrealgazette.com/travel/Boozy+chimp+sent+rehab+Russia/2616639/story.html

Boozy ape sent to rehab

[S. Gompers]

I have drank beer and smoked with a chimp myself. He used to be allowed in the bar, if you gave him a lighter, he would not give it back unless you gave him another cig. He was more human than some here, God I love monkees. He played pool O.K. to...

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[Sagebrush]

He might make a good Congressional Representative or a Senator or maybe even a member of the adminstration after he gets out of rehab. Hear no evilbankers, see no evil bankers, and definitely don't speak out truthfully about evil bankers. He'd fit right in.

[J T S]

No he made it to the White house.

[DailyBail]

enjoyed the anecdote gompers...

[DB's Ignored Conscience]

Hmmmm...Was it a chimp or a monkey Gomp? Otherwise, great tale. In your dream, did the chimp call pocket?

[S. Gompers]

It was a chimp Gobie, not a monkey like you. No dream Gobias you should get out from under your bed more...

There really is a world out there.

[S. Gompers]

I should have said Nikko, not Gobie... Oops.

[DB's Ignored Conscience]

I will call you Santiago.

[S. Gompers]

Trust me, I am no Saint.

[DB's Ignored Conscience]

Saint??? Hmmm, you are not the old man who fought the fish? Aren't you trying to ward off the sharks?

[S. Gompers]

I would never ward off sharks, they taste to good blackened.

[J T S]

Trust me gompers wasnt the old man he hurt his hand remember .Gompers drinks with both hands.
Plus would never use iron from a ford

[S. Gompers]

Both hands and two shirt pockets for beer holders, JTS uses a funnel and hose, and Ford parts...

[J T S]

Didn't think you read The Old man and the sea .I thought you just watched movies LOl

[S. Gompers]

It was required reading in 8th grade, I would rather eat the sharks though, Santiago means Saint James.

You are still the Ford guy JTS, and can put away more beer than me, LOL.

[DB's Ignored Conscience]

I am one of Santiago's (Gomps) lions. I am the one that keeps his know it all attitude in check.

[S. Gompers]

You are just a monkey Gobie, nothing more. Truly a legend in your own mind...

JTS knows who and what you are.

[DB's Ignored Conscience]

Great comments DB'sIC, insightful and dynamic.